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Meet Angela
I spent 18 years leading communications, fundraising, and growth efforts at United Way of Greater St. Louis, and I lived firsthand the challenge of raising significant support for complex organizations with big ambitions for community change.
Organizations at the center of community change hold a unique place in communities. You bring people, partners, ideas, and resources together to tackle challenges no single program or organization can solve alone. It's a place I know well.
And when much of your value comes from bringing people together, shaping solutions, and moving a community forward, it can be especially challenging to help people see what they're investing in and why they should care.
Today, I bring that experience to my work with nonprofit CEOs and leadership teams pursuing transformation-level support.
I work across fundraising, strategy, and story to help you discover what will make the biggest difference as you guide your organization toward growth. That could mean strengthening how your organization demonstrates its value, identifying opportunities for significant investment, or helping your leaders, board, and team confidently make the case.
And because I've spent my career working inside and alongside nonprofits, I know whatever we build has to work in the real world with real boards, real donors, real teams, competing priorities, and never enough time.
Ultimately, I help your organization attract the level of support that matches your ambitions.
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FAQ
What does it mean to be fully backed?
Being fully backed means having the support your organization needs to pursue its biggest ambitions, not simply funding individual programs or making the annual numbers work.
That can mean larger and longer-term investments, more unrestricted support, stronger corporate partnerships, board members who confidently advocate for the organization, and donors who understand and want to invest in where you're going.
I know keeping the lights on is important, but that's a pretty low bar for organizations trying to change communities.
What do you mean by transformation-level support?
Transformation-level support is significant investment that gives your organization the ability to do something meaningfully bigger.
There's no magic dollar amount. What's transformational for one organization may be business as usual for another. What matters is whether the investment matches the scale of what you're trying to accomplish and gives you the capacity to move the organization forward.
Who is this work for?
I typically work with CEOs and leadership teams at established nonprofits, often with annual revenue of $8M+, that have big ambitions for their organization and community.
Your organization may be complex and multifaceted. You may work across programs, partners, sectors, or systems. You may even be seen as successful.
But you know there's more out there for you.
You know your organization should be attracting significantly greater investment, and you also know another gala, giving day, campaign, or sponsorship package isn't going to get you where you want to go.
How do you usually work with clients?
My work is a senior-level partnership with the CEO and leadership team.
Together, we look across the system that supports fundraising, from positioning and organizational narrative to fundraising strategy and investment opportunities, executive and stakeholder communications, and the strategies, tools, and capacity your team needs to raise significantly more.
Importantly, I bring two decades of experience, but I don't come in with a predetermined answer.
We investigate where you're at today, where the biggest opportunities are, and what will make the biggest difference. Then we get to work on those things.
What makes your approach different?
I also know fundraising doesn't just live in the development department.
What your CEO says matters. What your board understands matters. How you talk about your results matters. Your strategy, reputation, donor experience, investment opportunities, and ability to explain why the organization itself is worth backing all matter.
That's why I work across the organization instead of handing you a fundraising plan and wishing you luck.
Do we need to be planning a campaign?
Nope.
This work can absolutely support a campaign, but you don't need one to pursue transformation-level investment.
We'll look at where the strongest opportunities for significant support already exist, what may be getting in the way, and what needs to be strengthened so your organization can pursue those opportunities with confidence.
No campaign required.
When's the right time to bring you in?
When the work is too important not to be fully backed.